Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

If a man once fall, all will tread upon him.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.